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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work

ITS WORK.

HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying Life-boat coxswains, crews and helpers, for services rendered, including exercises: and in awarding them medals, vellums, etc., for conspicuous bravery: in awarding medals, certificates or grants of money to those who, at the risk of their own lives, save, or endeavour to save, by means of shore boats or otherwise, life from shipwreck on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in granting pecuniary compensation to men injured on service t in granting pecuniary compensation to the Widows and other dependent relatives of Life-boatmen who lose their lives on service, not less than £100 being allowed for each Widow and £25 for each dependent child: and in granting pensions or retiring allowances to Life-boat coxswains, bowmen and signalmen of long service and good character.

T A t : . '91 to the Secretary, ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

22, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, W.C.

I heartily approve of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and desire to support them.

Please enrol my name as a Subscriber (Donor) to the Funds of the Institution.

I enclose. value £ s. d. as a contribution to the Funds (which I hope to continue from year to year).

Governor—Annual Subscription £i is. . Life Governor—Donation of £10 los. Va/nc Subscribers of los. and upwards are entitled to the "Life-Boat Journal," rUll AdaTeSS issued Quarterly.

Subscriptions of smaller amounts are very tkankjully received.

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FORM OF BEQUEST.

For these who wish permanently to benefit what mn»t necessarily be * permanent Work of Humanity.

/ give and bequeath to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, London, Incorporated by Royal Charter, th. sum of £ for the use of the said Institution, and I declare that the said Legacy shall be paid free from Legacy Duty, and that the receipt of the Treasurer of the said Institution shall be a sufficient discharge for the same..